The true prophecies or prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, physician to Henry II. Francis II. and Charles IX. Kings of France, and one of the best astronomers that ever were. / A work full of curiosity and learning. Translated and commented by Theophilus de Garencieres, Doctor in Physick Colleg. Lond.

by Nostradamus

XXVIII.

French.

Second & tiers qui font prime Musique,

Sera par Roy en honneur sublimée,

Par grasse & maigre presque a deny etique;

Rapport de Venus faux rendra deprimée.

English.

Second and third that make prime Musick,

Shall by the King be exalted to honour,

By a fat one, and a lean one, one in consumption,

A false report of Venus shall pull her down.

ANNOT.

Notwithstanding the obscurity of this sense, and the bad connexion of the words, we may perceive that by this Stanza is meant, that a King having two Mistresses shall exalt them in great honour, till by a report made by a fat woman and a lean one, that is in a consumption, that the said Ladies prove unfaithful to the King, he will depress them as low as they were before.